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Box Office Report for the Week of December 25
Merry Christmas! While cold weather and storms certainly had an impact on this weekend’s holiday box office, James Cameron‘s Avatar: The Way of Water was easily number one again. An estimated $56 million is a bigger drop than initially would have been expected, but it’s still a decent haul, considering the freezing temperatures, as well […] More
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Film Review: ‘Babylon’ is An Unwieldy Yet Wildly Fun Look At Hollywood’s 1920’s Bacchanal Days
When you think about Hollywood, you think about it being where movies are made. It’s a dream factory. That’s true, but especially a century ago, it was also an unabashed bacchanal. Sex and drugs flowed freely, in a manner that would put most modern folk to shame. It’s in that extreme playground that Babylon sets […] More
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Awards Radar Podcast #115: Joey Takes Myles and Steve to Pandora for ‘Avatar: The Way of Water’ and to the Hedonistic Old Days of Hollywood for ‘Babylon’
Welcome back to the Awards Radar Podcast. In each episode, Editor Joey Magidson (that’s me!) will be joined by some of the staff of Awards Radar to talk about the latest in film, television, and entertainment in general. The show will obviously have an awards season slant to it, but we won’t forget about other […] More
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On the Radar… (December Edition)
It’s December! You know what that means: late-breaking Oscar contenders! And man oh man do we have a lot of them coming down the pipeline in the next few weeks. Literally every single movie I decided to cover this month has a very real shot at a Best Picture nomination, and all but one of […] More
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New Trailer for ‘Babylon’ Gives Better Look at Damien Chazelle’s Wild Epic
Written and directed by Damien Chazelle, the movie releases exclusively in theatres on December 23. More
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Awards Season / Oscar Predictions Update: Screeners Are Out, ‘Babylon’ Has Proven Divisive, and Only James Cameron Looms
First of all, I hope everyone enjoyed their Thanksgiving. Fingers crossed you had a happy, healthy, and safe day yesterday. Now, on to today’s article. Black Friday, as today is known, is a major shopping holiday. That goes for the awards season, too. While folks are hunting for sales, Oscar voters are shopping for nominees, […] More
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Margot Robbie and Diego Calva to Campaign for Lead Categories for ‘Babylon’ While the Movie Will Officially Run Three Hours Long
The movie will be Damien Chazelle’s longest yet, clocking in at a whopping three hours and eight minutes. More
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Damien Chazelle’s ‘Babylon’ Gets New Release Date, Coming to Theatres This Year
Damien Chazelle‘s latest film, Babylon, got a new release date. The movie was previously scheduled to release in a limited number of theaters on Christmas Day, before being available on the rest of the country on January 6th. Now, it will release nationwide on December 23rd. This would be the director’s fifth movie. The star-studded […] More
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First Trailer for Damien Chazelle’s ‘Babylon’ Released
Paramount Pictures has released the first trailer for Damien Chazelle‘s Babylon. The film will be set in the Jazz Age of the 1920s, during Hollywood’s transition from silent films to talkies. The project was first announced by Chazelle himself during the summer of 2019, before Paramount bought the rights for it later that year. The […] More
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First Look at ‘Babylon’ Teases An Ambitious Production from Damien Chazelle
The movie will be releasing exclusively in movie theatres on December 25, in time for Awards season. More
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100 Films to Look Forward To in 2022
Welcome to 2022! With the calendar fully turned over from 2021, we’re about to get an entire slate of new movies to dig into. This coming weekend, The 355 is the first major release of the year. Beyond that? Well, there’s literally everything. Last year, I posed this list for 2021 on January 1st (here) […] More
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Jean Smart Joins Damien Chazelle’s ‘Babylon’ Cast
Continuing with a recent trend, Jean Smart once again shows she’s a force to be reckoned with, as she’s just joined the all-star cast of the upcoming Damien Chazelle film Babylon, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Smart has been making a comeback after staring in the HBO miniseries’ Watchmen (for which she was nominated for […] More